Let’s kick it off with Lon Chaney Jr. tonight…did you know he was a damn fine singer? Here he is (still using his real name, Creighton Chaney) from the 1934 film, Girl o’ My Dreams…
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Last year we were watching this great bit from The Colgate Comedy Hour where Abbott and Costello run into The Creature From the Black Lagoon (which is fantastic). That, of course, a play off of the classic film of theirs, …Meet...
In an insidious move to try to get me to care about their franchise, The Mummy folks tapped Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh to join their ensemble. We happen to have a spare copy of the DVD here. If you want to win–you can enter using the...
Apart from the 1959 Mummy film, we haven’t posted a lot about the original franchise. So here are the trailers for both the first film starring Karloff, then the franchise that sort of ran off in a different direction, with Lon Chaney...
An ongoing attempt to make sense of the onslaught of new swag that people want you to buy. Should you? I’ll try and help. Okay, so the third Mummy film opens this weekend. Or third and a half if you count The Scorpion King. And...
Okay, so what does that mean? “Been there to see?” It means that I wish I could have been there, in a cinema, to see it when it first was shown. Because we soon forget why these moments are significant. If we look at Lon Chaney...
Directed by: Terence Fisher; Written by: Jimmy Sangster; Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer.
If you were thinking about buying these three movies (or even just the first two...) and haven't already done so, you might want to pick these up. However, if you've already got the original DVD release, just let this one slide right by.